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Emotion Lose Self Control Intensity Feeling Samuel Grief Lost

Phrase/Idiom beside yourself
Definition If you are beside yourself (with an emotion), you lose your self-control because of the intensity of the emotion you are feeling.
Example Samuel was beside himself with grief when he lost his dog.

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